http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/quarry-farm-fellowship daily 0.75 2020-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585248029838-76OWO7ITHKU9FDCD2MW2/image-asset.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Quarry Farm Fellowship In August 2019, I took a three-week writing fellowship at Quarry Farm, the family home where Mark Twain spent summers and penned much of his best-known work for two decades. Below are some photographs taken during my stay. I discuss the beneficial impact the fellowship had on my work in a post published on the Center for Mark Twain Studies website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585248029838-76OWO7ITHKU9FDCD2MW2/image-asset.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Quarry Farm Fellowship In August 2019, I took a three-week writing fellowship at Quarry Farm, the family home where Mark Twain spent summers and penned much of his best-known work for two decades. Below are some photographs taken during my stay. I discuss the beneficial impact the fellowship had on my work in a post published on the Center for Mark Twain Studies website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585247054918-R1XINT1VL5PUFSX96NA5/image-asset.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Porch overlooking the New York border, into Pennsylvania's "Endless Mountains" During the summers Twain spent at Quarry Farm, he would read drafts of new work aloud to his family on the porch in the evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246974669-B10JIN8VFKXCWQJRUZH8/IMG_2484.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Garden behind the kitchen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585247952635-A8GMRMV3FRPI9GV7VK06/image-asset.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - View of the back porch at Quarry Farm In August 2020, I spent a month living at Quarry Farm, the home of Mark Twain’s sister-in-law where he and his family summered for twenty years. I describe the wonderful experience I had during this writing retreat in a post published on the Center for Mark Twain Studies website. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/5e7ceb39474d892391749b85/5e7cec2eae8e4b0a83ab0ca4/1585245230386/ QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246946708-V6C7F1L1AGA83POMFORB/D98C23B6-E58C-4CDD-831B-5F8E7715FDB8.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Twain's bedroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246922287-GNZSWFF089RC92FZFYJY/32AE9A96-85F9-4149-8480-3B0BA2714B39.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246360020-812M33Q1S8ZQ0W064JN1/IMG_3080.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - The Parlor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246906612-4VJHIMD3KDR5C1BWIZDA/IMG_2689.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Mark Twain Reading Room, Elmira College Samuel Clemens’s luggage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585248403673-Q2LUVZNDMJG3W02I2ESG/image-asset.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - John S. Tuckey Papers, notes on Mark Twain's manuscript "3,000 Years among the Microbes" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585248757656-ZS7TN50VX2KNQDXQY56V/image-asset.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Mark Twain's copy of Walt Whitman's _Leaves of Grass_ The poem “Quicksand Years” has been marked with a double slash in a copy otherwise light on marginalia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585248582523-2BZ3O91WLZQESNFHT3KZ/image-asset.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Mark Twain's copy of Edith Wharton's _House of Mirth_ Cryptic, handwritten note in the back reads: “The rarest & sweetest lie I ever heard is the” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585251300979-CLYYVPUTAWYD5S1JBYX9/IMG_2858.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Excursion with friends https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585251292133-DSXBW01ZYRJ8YZD4M331/ABAE7085-C898-426C-A8A1-C936DFE82E7E.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Alarmed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246525104-LQKQNCUH885EI4E591IF/IMG_2762.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - The Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585248574433-NLY561D3A12O1J8R0TZN/IMG_2960.jpg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Woodlawn Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246397417-RV403I19DJNGQXNS0MP3/IMG_3017.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Labyrinth to the Clemens family plot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246459489-FH7HFR9SIZO857F7JV9R/IMG_2969.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - A disconcerting number of turns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246430072-E506L1QYY05ZG8BJFA1O/IMG_2966.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Tombstone reads: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens --Mark Twain-- Nov. 30, 1835-Apr. 21, 1910" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1585246373125-3609HBKSHSR9BIPL18EK/IMG_4076.jpeg QUARRY FARM FELLOWSHIP - Till next time http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/teaching daily 0.75 2018-08-05 http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/publications daily 0.75 2025-06-03 http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/ecc7922a-561c-4ea4-ab29-989616388091/5P2A5731.jpeg BIO Parker Posey and I in front of the Tulsa skyline reflected in the Arkansas River. http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/events daily 0.75 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1490567690682-532LRWHVZY9RGXJ0UB52/image-asset.jpeg EXHIBITS & EVENTS 1855 first edition folio of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1491786221739-UDJRAEEZNRTHZBQ1GWJ4/Schedule.jpg EXHIBITS & EVENTS 2016-7 Brown Bag Schedule at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1689918626671-2O5FKNCOVB8YDCDXZSX3/Jewett+case+at+Houghton%2C+McLaughlin.jpg EXHIBITS & EVENTS - Make it stand out Case devoted to Sarah Orne Jewett and A Marsh Island at the Houghton Library, Harvard University http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/whitmanbicentennial daily 0.75 2020-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/1588001255957-588QHA112YF0JLQ33T8R/Whit200.jpg WHITMAN BICENTENNIAL ESSAYS - Co-authored with Clare Mullaney. “Whitman and Disability: An Introduction.” Common-place.org. 19, no. 1 (Spring 2019). http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/phobia-and-american-literature daily 0.75 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/c8479dd6-70fc-4445-9a3d-58bc416fe074/Phobia+and+American+Lit%2C+Cover.png PHOBIA AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1705-1937 - Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History (Oxford University Press, 2025) http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/home daily 1.0 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5793d87a197aea34acdd159b/065bc906-b3f2-4cd8-96ad-f5017a91d305/Marsh+Island+cover.jpg HOME - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://donjamesmclaughlin.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377096507573-1MU42OOOOGIM9URAJ9D9/515c4225e4b0afec1218b21e.png Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377096775448-0L7B4Q54H1VLOGFF1DPR/synthetica+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377097104716-HDI53XJVV0DKZ24A3T68/51e453dee4b06abd3403c22e.png Read Me